This is part 2 of our 2011 Predictions podcast, for which we have invited 7 guests who are giving us their predictions for project management in 2011. They are in order of appearance:
This episode is not about project management. It's about how to find your next project management job.
It looks like the economy is recovering. After a couple of years of going down there are now many encouraging signals that indicate an upswing. And that means... there are once again more projects going to be started and companies will start hiring project managers.
If you remember, a few months ago we had a group of recruiting experts on the program who gave us their job search insights. Because I know that so many project managers are looking for a job right now, I decided to invite one of these experts, Tim Tyrell-Smith (www.timsstrategy.com) back onto our program to present to us "30 ideas of a successful job search". Tim collected and published these ideas as part of a book with the same name. But don't worry! We didn't bring onto the program to sell you his book, we brought him here to talk about his ideas. The book itself is free.
You'll hear in the interview that while Tim's book is free he also offers a real paper-based version. And as always... we are giving away 2 copies. One of these copies automatically goes to our premium listeners and the other one is up for grabs for anyone. Are you interested? No problem... just go to www.facebook.com/pmpodcast and look for the announcement with the book giveaway and just add a comment. Anyone who leaves a comment on this book giveaway notice gets a chance to win. And obviously 1 copy is reserved for our premium listeners.
Which brings us to the winners of our last book giveaway: We had two copies of Elizabeth Harrin's book "Social Media for Project Managers" to give away. And the winners are...
Kareem Shaker was selected at random from among all the people who left a comment on facebook
And from among our premium listeners the lucky winner is... Josephine Brookes from Surrey in England.
If you are a regular listener of The PM Podcast, then you know that at the end of the year we always produce a humorous "bloopers" episode, where you can listen in to all those funny moments when things went wrong and nothing worked the way it should have. Unfortunately, we have done this for 5 years now and we're really getting good at not making too many of these bloopers. So in an effort to bring you something new, we decided to create a podcast with predictions from project managers around the world.
We invited 7 guests onto this and next week's episode to give us their predictions for project management in 2011. They are in order of appearance:
When I interviewed Elizabeth Harrin on her new book "Social Media for Project Managers" my first question was the skeptics view. I basically asked her "why should I bother with social media on my project because after all... I have to deliver results and not waste my time of Facebook."
Well... we decided that the proof is in the pudding, or rather the proof that social media works on projects is in the case studies.
So in this, the second interview on Social Media and Project Management with Elizabeth Harrin, we are going to present a number of case studies that illustrate nicely, that social media tools can indeed provide value on projects if you apply them appropriately.
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About this episode:
In our last PM Podcast Listener Survey you (the listeners) told me that you would also like to hear book reviews on the podcast.
So we teamed up with The PMI Los Angeles Chapter's Book Club and in Episode 151 we brought you the first 2 book review.
Today, we continue with 2 more books.
1. “Lean Project Management” by Laurence Leach, reviewed by Mark Layton 2. Silos, Politics and Turf Wars” by Patric Lencioni reviewed by Sani Abdul-Jabbar
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